ABSTRACT
This concluding chapter returns to the initial questions and summarises the central findings of this study in a comparative perspective. It explains that a combination of diverse factors, internal and external to the movements, enabled mobilization to shift upwards in territorial and social scale, influencing also organizational patterns and action repertoires employed by movement organizers. Next, it points at a learning path, namely a process of cumulative learning that activists and movement organisers underwent throughout the 2012–14 protest cycle. This allowed for the construction of relational, emotional and cognitive resources and the transfer of knowledge and experience from one wave of protest to another. Finally, it delves into the legacy of the protests, exploring the civic initiatives that developed in its aftermath – the creation of workers union, civic initiatives and urban activist groups. To conclude, it reviews the perspectives for beyond ethnic mobilization in BiH, a country at a continuing political standstill, and the unlikelihood of civic grassroots movement to meddle into the realm of party politics in the near future.
